The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how a particular narrative approach in nursing, namely the photo instrument can be connected with Ricoeur's hermeneutic philosophy. Ricoeur's concept of mimesis, when supplemented with the concept of performance, is shown relevant for understanding how patients construct and reformulate meaning in illness experiences. A single-case study is presente...

Scholars have approached the study of rabbinic sage stories from a wide range of methodological perspectives, including historical, literary, folkloric and, most recently, cultural studies. Despite this variety of approaches, there exists a broad consensus among scholars on one key issue: sage stories are an essentially aggadic, and therefore non-halakhic, genre. As such, the question of how be...

This article investigates the aesthetic of twentieth-century Metropolitan Police box and its ongoing association with TARDIS time machine from BBC’s television science-fiction show, Doctor Who . fans explore police through multiple identities, where it is celebrated, investigated recreated. draws on Catherine Johnson’s theories pseudo-diegesis extra-diegesis to demonstrate how such fan interest...

Firms frequently adopt new information systems (IS). To better understand IS adoption, research has been focused on motives for an IS adoption. In this study, three legitimacy-based motives (coercive, mimetic, and normative pressure) are examined for their impact on two success determinants (i.e., project management approach and team competence) and the subsequent impact of the success determin...

The extremely slow return movements observed in stick insects (phasmids) after imposed changes in posture are termed catalepsy. In the literature, catalepsy is treated as a behavioural component of the twig mimesis observed in walking stick insects. It is produced by the high gain of the velocity-sensitive component of the relevant joint control systems and by the non-linear dependency of its t...

This study adopts an institutional theory perspective of the adoption of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems by medium sized firms in India. The study contributes to the understanding of the operation of the three isomorphic pressures: coercive, mimetic and normative, in the adoption of IS by moving beyond the common view of these as ‘monolithic entities’. The study is undertaken by mean...

Mimesis theory is one of the primitive skill of imitative learn ing which is regarded as an origin of human intelligence because imita tion is fundamental function for communication and symbol manipula tion When the mimesis is adopted as learning method for humanoids loads for designing full body behavior would be decrease because bottom up learning approaches from robot side and top down teach...